Workers moving from factories towards the city centre symbolised which change?

Correct answer: Economic unrest turning into public political protest

Direct answer: Option A, economic unrest turning into public political protest. In the February Revolution, workers first faced serious economic hardships such as food shortages, rising prices, low wages, and difficult wartime conditions. When they left factories and moved toward the city centre, their complaint was no longer limited to one workplace. Step by step: hardship created anger; anger produced factory strikes; workers then entered public spaces; public demonstrations placed pressure on the government and the Tsar. Thus an economic issue became a political protest. Option A is correct because it explains this change from workplace unrest to city-wide opposition. Option B is wrong because factories did not become farms; that is unrelated to the event. Option C is wrong because the Tsar’s election campaign was not the meaning of workers’ movement, and the Tsar was not conducting such a campaign. Option D is wrong because movement toward the city did not represent administrative expansion of the Church. Exam cue: when a protest moves from a factory into public streets, ask whether a private economic complaint has become a public political demand.